by Lawsome | Jun 13, 2025 | Opinions
By Jo Bartosch Let’s be honest—if you’re gay, lesbian or bisexual, you could do a lot worse than Britain. Sure, we’ve got our problems, but we also have legal protections most of the world can only dream of. We can marry, adopt, and enjoy an equal age of consent. If...
by Lawsome | May 16, 2025 | Opinions
By Jo Bartosch Thanks to last month’s Supreme Court ruling, sex is now back on the workplace agenda. No longer a dirty word, it has reclaimed its legal meaning. Unsurprisingly, this has upended the business models of self-identified inclusion gurus. The consultants...
by Lawsome | Mar 3, 2025 | Opinions
By Jo Bartosch Inclusion policies are fast burning a hole in corporate pockets. The blaze was ignited five years ago when lesbian barrister Allison Bailey took her own chambers, Garden Court Chambers (GCC), to an employment tribunal for punishing her over the...
by Lawsome | Jan 20, 2025 | Opinions
By Jan Baxter Until 2013, I’d been a regular attendee at PCS Union conference, not least because I was Secretary of the union’s LGBT group, Proud, for about six years, and represented PCS on the TUC LGBT committee. I’ve also been a Branch Secretary and Regional...
by Lawsome | Jan 10, 2025 | Opinions
By Kate Barker, CEO, LGB Alliance As Margot James MP famously said, “if you don’t like the idea of gay marriage, don’t marry a gay person.” Showing, rather neatly, that the advances LGB people have sought have never been at the expense of the rights of others. In...
